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Fortify Software and HP have teamed up to release Hybrid 2.0, a tool designed to test web applications for security flaws.

2010-03-09T06:06:00.000-08:00

Hybrid 2.0 is a tool integrating dynamic application security testing (DAST) and static application security testing (SAST) in a hybrid approach, according to HP and Fortify. However, they argue that it goes beyond simple hybrid testing, which simply aggregated results from separate dynamic and static testing processes, and presented them to a software testing user.

"This 'after-the-fact correlation' presents the user with a simple list of discovered issues. A human must then manually sift through the results in order to perform root cause analysis and prioritize remediation efforts," said the companies in a white paper.

The Hybrid 2.0 tool is designed to more closely align penetration testing (DAST) results with source code analysis of web applications, to provide a cohesive view of an application's security issues. It links together more vulnerabilities discovered by the DAST and SAST tools, and then analyzes the proximity of issues to prioritize the riskier ones.

“The correlation of both static and dynamic testing solutions increases the accuracy of vulnerability detection, reduction of both false-positives and false negatives, and broader coverage of the application,” said Joseph Feiman, VP and Gartner Fellow.

Hybrid 2.0 integrates the HP Assessment Management Platform (AMP) with Fortify's Source Code Analysis (SCA) and Program Trace Analyzer (PTA) products.The integrated package will ship in the second half of this year. Read More..

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Ada unit testing tools List

2010-03-09T06:00:00.000-08:00

AdaControl

Description:

A checkstyle-like tool that detects the use of various kinds of constructs in Ada programs. Its first goal is to control proper usage of style or programming rules, but it can also be used as a powerful tool to search for use (or non-use) of various forms of programming styles or design patterns.

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Windows and Linux

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Ahven

Description:

Ahven is a simple unit test library (or a framework) for Ada 95 programming language. It is loosely modelled after JUnit and some ideas are taken from AUnit.

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Tested on Linux and Windows

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Aunit

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AUnit is a set of Ada packages based on the xUnit family of unit test frameworks.

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Unix, Windows

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DTraq

Description:

DTraq is a data logging and review debugging tool providing near realtime data logging and analysis to aid Ada debugging and validation.

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PC / Linux

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ProofPower

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ProofPower is a suite of tools including a compliance tool for specifying and verifying Ada programs..

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Solaris, Linux, Mac

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A Simple Test Driver Generator for Ada Programs.

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GNAT

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Automation tools like winrunner, rational robot etc

2010-02-26T03:03:00.000-08:00

When to use Automation tools? like winrunner, rational robot etc.?
Automating test cases and maintaining them requires significant effort, so before investing both money and effort in it, do some cost-benefit analysis.Ask yourself following questions. To answer them, you may need to do some small pilot project on automating some test cases and running them using the preferred tools.

After automating the test case, how many times you will use/run the automation script for testing, before dumping it forever or modifying/upgrading it for future Releases?
It takes roughly 3 times the effort to automate a test case than to manually execute it once.The more times you run/use the automation script without modifying it, the more will be the ROI(Return on Investment).Atleast you should be able to use it 5 times.So don't go for automation tools if the product is a short term product which doesn't involve many rounds of testing.

Is 'Time spent running the automation script' + 'Analysing the test results' less than 'Time spent on manual execution'?
Usually a automated script runs faster than manual execution.There are exceptions to this assumption. Also we first run the automation script completely and then analyze the test results, which can take considerable time, but when we manually execute, we don't need separate time to analyze the results,as we know what actions caused a check point to fail. Where as in the former case, we need to do some investigation as to what actions resulted to failing a check point.
So the 'Time spent on running the automation script' + 'analysing the test results' must be less than the 'Time spent on manual execution'
Ofcourse, if the automation scripts are well developed, don't require constant monitoring and run without manual intervention, then you can kick start them at night, come back and check the results in the morning. This way you can cut the time on running the scripts

Is it resuable for future releases of the product?If Yes how much effort will be required to upgrade the automation script?
The ROI will be more, if with little change, you can completely reuse the automation script.

Is the Product stable or does it keep changing quite often because of which the automation script needs to modified?
Never develop automation scripts on products that are already not stable. An unstable product keeps changing quite often resulting in the change of the automation script.

Are the test cases fit to be automated?
Certain test cases are not fit to be automated. Identiy them and don't automate them.The criteria on how to identify such cases change from product to product.I will share an example from my own experience. We automated a complex test case, which took long time to run. Also the product is an highly integrated application, so the test case often jumps from one application to another.The product's performance was not consistent.Adding to this, if somebody changed some settings of one application, then sometimes the test case came to a sudden stop.If the automation script stopped running because of any of the above mentioned issues, then because of the nature of the test case and the way automation script
was developed, we have to start running again right from the beginning. So the end result was, the time taken to run the automation script was way more than the time taken to execute it manually.
Fit test cases when automated run from end to end without any manual intervention and verify all the check points they intend to. It partly depends on how the automation script is developed.

How best to use automation tools?
Additional tips to make best use of automation tools

Use automation tools for performing tedious and repetitive tasks, so that the testers can concentrate on more important tasks.One example is for performing Sanity testing

Use automation tools to test the breadth of entire product/application being tested. Leave the job of doing in-depth testing to test engineers and manual execution

Don't automate highly complex test cases.Its better to execute them manually.

Automation scripts whose execution time is less than 2 hours often run smoothly.

Don't completely forgo manual testing.Automation scripts do exactly what they are programmed do, they don't deviate.That is their advantage and disadvantage. After first few rounds of testing, if you run the same set of test cases, you won't be catching many bugs, to catch more, we need to deviate from the flows and that we humans can do while doing manual testing.

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Microsoft offers Spec Explorer 2010 software test tool

2010-02-18T23:58:00.000-08:00

Tackling the issue of software testing, Microsoft this week is offering a tool that leverages model-based testing techniques.
The tool, Spec Explorer 2010, also referred to simply as Spec Explorer, is available on theMicrosoft DevLabs site, said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft developer division, in a Monday evening blog post.
Thorough, consistent, and extensible testing of systems remains one of the biggest challenges in creating and maintaining software systems, Somasegar said. The Spec Explorer tool released today on DevLabs tackles that problem using model-based testing techniques.
Spec Explorer models software behavior and generates test suites from those models. Models can be viewed as graphical renderings to understand expected system behavior. Test suites can run standalone or in the Visual Studio test framework or other unit test frameworks. Engineers with no modeling background can build models with Spec Explorer, Somasegar said.
Models are written in C# and accompanied by configuration files in a scripting language called Cord, for Coordination Language, the Spec Explorer team blog reported on Tuesday.

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2010-02-18T23:46:00.000-08:00

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Introduction to Mercury Quality Centre

2010-02-18T23:37:00.000-08:00

Mercury Quality Center is a web-based test management tool. It gives you a centralized control over your entire testing Project. It can make the task of the testers and managers easy by giving an easy interface to manage and organize activities like Requirements coverage, Test Case Management, Test Execution Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Automation. All these activities are provided from a single tool, which is web-based and can be accessed from any where.

Mercury Quality Centre can be divided into two parts. One for tool administrator and another for tool user. These two parts are called Site Administrator Bin and Quality Centre Bin. These parts are discussed in more detail in the next section.

Site Administration Bin ( SABin ) : This is an important part of the software and also starting point for the usage of Mercury Quality Centre project. All the administrative activities like creating the projects, assigning users to the projects, creating specific roles etc. is done from this area. This section is also used for configuring your application with the tool. For example, if you want to use the Winrunner or Quality Test Professional ( QTP ) scripts from Quality Center, you need to specify it here. If you are using Winrunner, you need to make sure that backward compatibility property of the application to true. SABin can also be used to configure the mail servers. Password for site admin is defined during the installation so make sure that you remember the password during installation.
Quality Center Bin ( QCBin ) : This is how user interact with tool. QCBin interface gives functionality of creating test plans, defining requirements, creating test cases, creating test labs, associating requirements with defects in essence, everything that as a tester or test manager you need to do in your day to day activity apart from execution.

This article will start off with the explanation about SABin and then move towards using Quality Center using the QCbin.

Quality Centre is installed as a service in your windows environment. Before start working on it, make sure that Mercury Quality Centre service is running. As mentioned earlier, Quality Centre can be accessed from web browser using http://:8080/sabin/SiteAdmin.htm format, assuming that Quality Centre is listening on default port. This page is the starting point and gives a login screen where you need to provide admin credential which were used during the installation of Mercury Quality Centre. Once you are logged on to the SABin, you can perform all the administrative tasks mentioned above. You can also verify your licensing information, information about database etc. using SABin.

After you are done with defining your projects, user etc. it is time for QCBin to come into the picture. This is the most common interface used by the customers or users. Quality Center provides the role based accessed to the Projects. For example, A Test Manager can create projects and Test Lead can prepare test plans and tester can write the test cases. This role based access makes it very easy to control access to various artifacts of the project and also distribution of responsibility among team members.

There are four distinct things which can be managed in Mercury Quality Centre -

Requirements
Test Plan
Test Lab
Defects

These four items can be termed as the 4 pillars of the Quality Process for any organization. Each of these components sections contain information about different projects created using SABin.

Hi-Tech Software Testing Services to expand in India

2010-02-18T02:11:00.000-08:00

Bangalore: Hi-Tech Software Testing Services is a fast growing software testing company in India. The company is dedicated to providing professional software testing services in India. The company is famous for high quality, top accuracy and time bound software testing services. Customers can save up to 40 percent to 60 percent on the cost by outsourcing their software testing requirement.

Hi-Tech Software Testing Services offers a standard software testing and quality assurance services across the entire software life cycle. Company's software testing services includes formulating the test plan and test cases, execution, defect reporting, defect analysis, risk assessments and recommendations. Hi-Tech uses neat and clean approach in software testing process to fulfill the exact requirement. Their testing methodology has helped to minimize project risk and streamline testing releases. Company claims that their software testing services will ensure that customer's software is bug-free, stable and works flawlessly on a variety of platforms.

Hi-Tech Software Testing Services include Functionality Testing, Regression testing, Performance Testing, Compatibility Testing, Usability Testing, GUI Testing, User Acceptance Testing. The process of QA at Hi-tech Software Testing Services is carried out by a very distinctive Quality Analysis team. Hi-tech has a vast experience in software testing field and offer a standard software testing and quality assurance services across the entire software life cycle.

Hi-Tech's software testers do software testing in varied functional domains based on the given requirement. The company provides services in different platforms such as PHP, Java, .Net, ASP.

HP to Offer Software Testing as a Profession

2010-02-17T00:06:00.000-08:00

As India has a shortfall of 15,000 qualified application testing professionals, Hewlett-Packard (HP) will be offering specialized training in software testing for students in Bangalore.

The aim of the program is to students with highly valued software skills. Software testing skills are in high demand as more companies want to ensure the quality and security of their applications to protect the integrity of the business outcome.

Kamal Dutta, Director, HP Software and Solutions, HP India said, "HP's program offers free training to selected students and through its focused training modules in testing tools. Now students, and ultimately corporations, can benefit from more readily available training by a leading vendor in software testing."

As per a Nasscom report, the need for more software testing professionals is particularly vital in India. The software testing tools market in Asia Pacific is estimated at US $102.6 million in 2008 and India contributes to 21.3 percent of this market share.

The HP community relations program was established in partnership with the Indian Institute of Hardware Technology (IIHT). It is designed to train students on market-leading software testing tools, including HP Quick Test Professional and HP LoadRunner. The 3-month program includes a combination of classroom lectures and exercises. The students will learn about tools and methodologies that have practical application in the workplace.

"Even though developer as a profession is preferred by software engineers, however, things are changed now and software professions are also accepting testing as a career," said Dutta.

In fact, most IT companies have similar salary structure for both developers as well as testing, he said. HP Software plans to roll out further projects in other cities in India and Asia Pacific over the next one year.

courtesy: CXOTODAY

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2009-11-30T04:30:00.000-08:00

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HOW TO MIGRATE A TD 8.0 PROJECT TO A QC SERVER MANUALLY

2009-11-11T07:27:00.000-08:00

HOW TO MIGRATE A TD 8.0 PROJECT TO A QC SERVER MANUALLY

If a migration fails or the Quality Center server is on an external network, then the user can do a migration of TestDirector to Quality Center manually.

Solution: Restore a TD project to QC server and upgrade the project
You can do without the migration tool and directly create and restore the dbid.xml file in Quality Center.
1. Run the Migration Utility first to make sure the users information gets imported. If this is ..Read more

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SOFTWARE TESTING THATS IT

2009-06-03T08:33:00.000-07:00

Software Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test, with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate. Software Testing also provides an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks at implementation of the software. Test techniques include, but are not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs. It can also be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program/application/product meets the business and technical requirements that guided its design and development, so that it works as expected and can be implemented with the same characteristics.

Software Testing, depending on the testing method employed, can be implemented at any time in the development process, however the most test effort is employed after the requirements have been defined and coding process has been completed.

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MemMXtest 2.0

2009-06-02T08:54:00.000-07:00

MemMXtest is a computer program for "IBM-compatible" PCs, that checks the computer's main memory for faults and defects. (Note however, that no program can be guaranteed to detect all faults, due to their very nature.) This program is aimed specifically at testing SDRAM memory modules (`DIMMs'), and uses MMX instructions to read/write all 64 databits provided by these modules at once. MemMXtest incorporates many well-known `march' tests, as well as several pseudo-random tests. The vital parts of each test use manually optimized machine code for maximal speed.

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Web Performance Trainer 2.8

2009-06-02T08:47:00.000-07:00

Web Performance Trainer is a load testing and stress testing tool for Web servers. Web Performance Trainer's statistical analysis takes your site's performance criteria, and determines the number of users your Web site can handle. Web Performance Trainer is a software that allows you test web performance. Because data is collected at the URL level, it not only identifies slow Web pages, but identifies the particular part of the Web page that caused the problem.

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Books related to Software Test Automation

2009-04-18T02:13:00.000-07:00

"This book will teach you how to make automated testing tools useful." At first glance, it seems easy to automate testing: just buy one of the popular test execution tools, record the manual tests, and play them back whenever you want to. Just as there is more to software design than knowing a programming language, there is more to automating testing than knowing a testing tool.

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* Explanation of why capture replay is not test automation

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Get Books related to GUI Test Automation Framework

2009-04-18T02:02:00.000-07:00

GUI test automation is a major challenge for software testing and test automation. Most of the current GUI test automation tools are partially automated. They require the involvement of the users in several stages of the testing process. This research is about developing a framework and an application for user interface testing with the least user involvement.

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Fortify Software and HP have teamed up to release Hybrid 2.0, a tool designed to test web applications for security flaws.

Ada unit testing tools List

Automation tools like winrunner, rational robot etc

Microsoft offers Spec Explorer 2010 software test tool

Testing

For "Software Testing", please try:

Introduction to Mercury Quality Centre

Hi-Tech Software Testing Services to expand in India

HP to Offer Software Testing as a Profession

Macrotesting

HOW TO MIGRATE A TD 8.0 PROJECT TO A QC SERVER MANUALLY

SOFTWARE TESTING THATS IT

MemMXtest 2.0

Web Performance Trainer 2.8

Books related to Software Test Automation

Get Books related to GUI Test Automation Framework